Silhouette Project: Kid’s Watercolor Birthday & Greeting Cards

I’ve had a huge stack of watercolors done by my girls that I indented to print greeting card messages on, then cut out and past onto blank cards. Now that I have my Cameo, I can do much better than that! I used the watercolors as my cutting medium in the cutting mat to create these cards. I measured the cards (these were left-over Thank You notes from Cora’s birthday) and created boxes in the Silhouette software a half-inch smaller in both directions to leave a quarter-inch border all the way around. Then I typed out text, centered it, and sent the design to the Silhouette. I got 5 cards to one painting with 3 stacked horizontally on the left side and two turned 90-degrees on the right side.

I played around with leaving the centers of the “A”s, “O”s, “B”s, etc and depending on the font, it can look nice either way. I found it easier to leave the letter pieces on the cutting mat and pasting them on by hand. I attempted to use a vinyl transfer sheet, but with the thick watercolor paper, it didn’t work well. On the thick paper, my blade needed to be at “5” and with a thinner sheet, “4” worked. I recommend doing a test cut.

Love these! I just keep finding more and more uses for this thing. I can’t believe I waited so long to finally bite the bullet and buy myself one!

Compulsive crafter, connoisseur of shiny things, author, real estate Broker, designer, and mom. My mind is always spinning with ideas on how to create beautiful, functional spaces and things. Jane of all trades, master of many. After designing my first home at 20 and becoming a general contractor at 23, I've since created complete custom home spaces as well as couture gowns, crystal-adorned shoes, and more. I don't take no for an answer because there is always a way.